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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Gregory the Dialogist
Who multiplieth the nations and destroyeth them, and them that are overturned He restoreth entire. We may understand it, viz. that 'the Lord multiplieth the nations and destroyeth them,' in this way, that day by day men are born destined to die, and that 'them, that be overturned, He restoreth entire,' in that they, who were dead, shall rise again; which however we shall interpret in a better sense, if we think how it is that this is done in their souls. …
Thomas Aquinas
As he had said that such alternation of sublimity and dejection happens among particular persons from God, he shows this same thing among all men saying of them, "who brings growth to the races," so that they increase in the great number of men, "and ruin to them," when he destroys them either by wars or pestilence. "And when they have been overturned," either by these things or from the oppression of one or of many who preside unfairly, "he restores them to integrity," for he returns it to a good condition.
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